Agenda and Documents

Entire Agenda

The meeting will be held as a in-person meeting from 22 to 26 September 2025. The times are given in Copenhagen Time (EDT, UTC +2).

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Daily agendas

Daily agendas including links to documents (papers and presentations)

  1. Monday, September 22nd
    Meetings
    Time (EDT, UTC‑4) Item
    08:30-09:00 Registration — refreshments
    09:00-09:30 Welcoming Remarks — Kirsten Balling, Director of Economic Statistics (Statistics Denmark)
    09:30-10:30 Opening Remarks & Meeting Agenda Overview — Voorburg Group co-chairs: Marcus Fridén (Sweden) / Mathieu Thomassin (Canada)
    Participant introductions — All
    10:30-11:00 Network Break
    11:00-11:30 Session: China's practices and experience in the compilation of China's Index of Service Production and SPPI — Li Na (China)
    11:30-12:00 Session: Industry Paper
    ISIC 78 Employment Activities (NAICS 5613) — Ariel Juarez (Mexico)
    12:00-13:15 Lunch break (restaurant STORM)
    13:15-13:45 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 1)
    Guidelines document on approximations of deflators when SPPIs are not available Session leader — Dorothee Blang (Germany)
    Katherine Chant (UK)
    13:45-14:15 Session: Industry Paper
    Price indexes for Post Secondary Education — Melanie Santiago (US BLS)
    14:15-14:45 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 2)
    Volume indicator of trade in services statistics — David Brackfield (OECD)
    14:45-15:15 Network break
    15:15-15:45 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 3)
    Measuring outsourcing of services — Agnieszka Matulska-Bachura (Poland)
    15:45-16:15 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 4)
    Development of Final Demand-Intermediate Demand Price Indices – Xin Ha (Canada)
  2. Tuesday, September 23rd
    Meetings
    Time (EDT, UTC‑4) Item
    09:00-10:30 Session: Industry Paper
    ISIC 829 Business Support Service Activities Not Elsewhere Classified
    Session leader — Christian Puchter (Austria)
    Output: Mariah Nilsson (Sweden), Josipa Kalčić Ivanić (Croatia)
    SPPI: Alexandra Schindlar (Austria), Beata Cebula (Poland), Théophile Desolle (France)
    10:30-11:00 Network break
    11:00-11:30 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 5)
    Estimating age-related depreciation in office rents — Mr. Kimiaki Shinozaki (Bank of Japan)
    11:30-12:15 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 6)
    The Update of the 2008 SNA: Impact on the Measurement of Services — Peter van de Ven (Inter-Secretariat Working Group on National Accounts (ISWGNA)
    12:15-13:30 Lunch break (restaurant STORM)
    13:30-14:30 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 7)
    Implementing a data driven model for automated dynamic outlier detection during data validation — Melanie Santiago (US BLS)

    Python dashboard for outlier detection using robust variance estimation — Trym Langballe (Norway)
    14:30-15:00 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 8)
    Producing PPIs using Reproducible Analytical Pipelines — Xin Ha (Canada)
    15:00-15:30 Network break
    15:30-16:00 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 9)
    How admin data are used to derive the output measurement for short term accommodation — Mathieu Thomassin (Canada), Maja Dozet (Croatia)
  3. Wednesday, September 24th
    Meetings
    Time (EDT, UTC‑4) Item
    09:00-9:30 Group discussion: Feedback on newsletter and communication between meetings
    Suggested topics for 2026 meeting
    9:30-10:10 Host Presentation

    Statistics Denmark: "the national supplier of independent statistics and data to society" — Magnus Nørtoft (Denmark)

    The History of Admin Based Statistics in Denmark — Lars Thygesen, Former Director of Sales and Marketing (Denmark)
    10:10-10:30 Network break
    10:30-11:45 Host Presentation

    Adopting standards to ensure high quality in production of statistics — Anne Andersen & Karin Blix (Denmark)

    Small Numbers, Big Problems: Constructing Life Tables for Danish Municipalities — Ilya Kashnitsky (Denmark)

    Beyond the numbers: Analysis at Statistics Denmark — Magnus Nørtoft (Denmark)
    11:45- Lunch break (restaurant STORM)
    12:45- Sightseeing in Copenhagen
    We will be guided through Copenhagen by bus to some of the amazing sights Copenhagen as to offer — there will be stops with the possibility of taking photos. The tour will be around three hours and you can stay in town or be dropped off at the conference hotel around 16:00.
  4. Thursday, September 25th
    Meetings
    Time (EDT, UTC‑4) Item
    08:30-9:30 Bureau meeting — VG Bureau members only
    9:30-10:00 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 10)
    Measuring Gross Value Added in constant prices — Sebastian Rask (Sweden)
    10:00-10:30 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 11)
    Introducing administrative data within the survey on turnover in services — Mariagrazia Moschetta (Italy)
    10:30-11:00 Network break
    11:00-11:30 Session: Industry Paper
    ISIC 61 Telecommunications services — Pelle Albers (Netherlands)
    11:30-12:00 Session: Industry Paper
    Use of non-public data sources for compiling SPPI for ISIC 4922 Other passenger land transport — taxi operation — Agnieszka Matulska-Bachura (Poland)
    12:00-13:15 Lunch Break (restaurant STORM)
    13:15-14:00 Cross-cutting topic (part 12)
    An early integrated approach using automated tools and expert validation to automatically recode from ATECO2022 to ATECO2025. A focus on section G 'Wholesale and retail trade' — Annarita Mancini (Italy)
    14:00-14:30 Network break
    14:30-15:00 Session: Cross-cutting topic (part 13)
    New handbook for measuring marketing assets in the National Accounts — Andrew Baer (IMF)
    15:00-15:30 Session: Cross-cutting topic (part 14)
    Prototype chatbot — Edwin Boey (Singapore)
    15:30-16:00 Bureau meeting — VG Bureau members only
  5. Friday, September 26th
    Meetings
    Time (EDT, UTC‑4) Item
    9:00-10:15 Session: 2026 meeting plan
    Voorburg Group co-chairs: Marcus Fridén (Sweden) /Mathieu Thomassin (Canada)
    VG Governance and Bureau Representation
    Future Agenda
    Assignment of Sector Papers
    Designation of Industries and Assignments for VG 2026
    Designation of Papers on Cross-cutting topics for VG 2026
    10:15-10:45 Network break
    10:45-12:00 Conclude VG 2026 meeting plan
    Designation of Assignments for VG 2026
    Meeting Arrangements for Next Year
    Closing Remarks

Notes to presenters

Presentations

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